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William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals: January Premier Auction - Books, Prints

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Auction Name January Premier Auction - Books, Prints Total Sales (USD) 12,803.00
Auction Date January 23, 2018 - January 23, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 9,720.00
Sale Number #12318 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 16,240.00
Total Lots 60
Sold Lots 57 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 10,080.00
% of Lots Sold 95.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 16,820.00
Unsold Lots 3 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 76.12%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1413 Lyonel Feininger (American 1871-1956),

3 woodcut prints: "Virtuoso"; "Untitled"; "Untitled"

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,298.00
1247 Albrecht Durer (Dutch, 1471-1528),

"The Sudarium Held by One Angel",

1516 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 767.00
1280 Taber Prang

Taber Prang hand colored lithograph in art nouveau frame, orientalist scene of Arabic nomads on camels

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 767.00
1191 Keith Haring, American, 1958-1990

Absolut Vodka, framed signed lithograph

USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 501.50
1268 Itzchak Tarkay, Israeli, 1935-2012,

signed lithograph, pencil signed Tarkay

USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 501.50
1361 Jacques Villon (French 1875-1963),

color etching, abstract composition,

USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 472.00
1208 from sketches by Theo R Davis

Antique engraving "Birds Eye View of Philadelphia", supplement to Harpers Weekly May 27, 1876

1876 USD 140.00 - 240.00 USD 442.50
1370 Kiyoshi Saito (Japanese 1907-1997),

"Winter in Aizu"

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 442.50
1262 Andrew Wyeth, American, 1917-2009,

"Daydream"

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 413.00
1408 Henry, Samuel,

A New and Complete American Medical Family Herbal

1814 USD 200.00 - 500.00 USD 413.00
1331 Honore Daumier, French, 1808-1879,

"La Parade Foraine"

USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 383.50
1385 Franklin Brooke Voss (American 1880-1953),

"Working it Out", after a painting by Voss

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 383.50
1402 Picasso

"Picasso 347, 347 Engravings That Picasso Executed At Mougins from March 16th to October 5th, 1968",

1970 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 354.00
1349 John Sloan (American 1871-1951),

"Woman with Etching Tray 1912"

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 324.50
1367 Leonard Baskin (American 1922-2000),

self portrait print, pencil signed "Baskin"

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 324.50
1414 Pablo Picasso (Spanish 1881-1973),

"Pour Robie"

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 324.50
1337 Edouard Manet (French, 1832-1883),

"Baudelaire"

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 295.00
1190 Robert Benney (American, 1904-2001),

original illustration of Leslie Howard in "Escape"

USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 265.50
1364 Jacques Villon (French 1875-1963),

abstract color aquatint on paper

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 265.50
1382 Franklin Brooke Voss (American 1880-1953),

handcolored fox hunt print, "Tally Ho", after a painting by Voss

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 265.50
1172

Framed letterpress concert program "Fourth Concert at West Ghent Church, by the Young Folks" to be held December 13, 1864

1864 USD 160.00 - 280.00 USD 236.00
1241 Lucas van Leyden (Dutch, 1494-1533),

"The Creation of Eve",

1529 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 200.60
1404 Szyk, Arthur & Roth, Cecil

"The Haggadah" Jerusalem: "Massadah" and "Alumoth" 1957

1957 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 177.00
1154

(3) Chessie The Cat railroad prints: "Peake Chessie's Old Man", "Chessie", and "Chessie and Kittens"

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 165.20
1283

(3) framed pictures of musicians, including photograph of Dizzy Gillespie, reproduction Louis Armstrong poster

USD 60.00 - 80.00 USD 165.20
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
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